The Press., 1887-09-01

wilt be, remembered that John Brown hat
 a largo number of these pikes made shor
 time before he Harpers Ferry raid, 9
 CollinsviIie, Conn., To those who furnish
 ei th,s fnnds ,hA idea was carried tha
 they were to be used against the bordel
 ruffilus in Kansas, few belng in the secre
 of his other and pet plan. To better hide
 his real intentions most of these bikes were shipped to Kansas, and many of them are deposited in different historical collections
 We shall prize our own sample very high
 ly. It is on exhibition at this office.
 At the auction sale of the Bartlett es tate wood lots on Saturday, Samuel Rock we'll bought the 60 acre lot for $362 and the Cotnpy lot for S53 40, and A. Spellman gave $68 50 for the Chamberlin lot.
 The famous Hennessy Bros. Ideal Minstrels will appear at Oronoco Hall Thursday evening, Sept. 1st. They are too well known here 10 need any common dation q 0ar hands. In their recent en- of one week, in Boston, they made great hit ana were highly spoken of by the press of thai city. Don't fail to see them Reserved seats at Parsons news room. The ce1ebrated Hennessy Bros., the great Johnnie AdAms and others will appear. See advertisement.
 Miss Mabel Converse and Messrs James Nj. Lord and George Dennis started Monday evening for Parker, Dakotah, the former to spend the fall and winter there, Mr. Lord for months visit, and MT. Den- his to see the country and decide how long to stay after seeing it.
 , Owing to sickness and absence of sev- eral prominent members of the family there will be no Orcutt reunlon this year.
 Last weeks circus is invariably com mended by ''experts'' as au excellent one for the money.
 There is considerable indignation felt at the way the New London Day told the story of burglary at the Summer cottage of B. F. Taylor of this village. The article is insulting and hbellous, and Mir. Taylor Is referred to once or twice in the most dis manner. The article says that
 Mir Taylor built small house below the Pequot House, which he occupied until he was ordered away ''as squatter and an This is meanly ibellous, and if The Day inclines to dacency will be roundly apologized for. Mir. Taylor hired he ground referred to and paid his rent lntil a change of owners compelled his re- noval, as well as of Osprey and Jerome md other occupants. He then bought the ot nearer the city which he has occupied iince. The cottage which the Day sneers tt as a ''hmsy domicile" was designed for put few summer weeks and suited its owners purpose very we'll, his family con- listing but of himself and wife. MT. Tay- or is a most highly reputable man as many New London citizens can assure The Day, md we doubt not have done so most ih- iignantly ere this. He stands well in Staf- ord, and has for many years been bank lirector. No one can cast reproach upon lis character or modes of life. He owns ot at Crescent beach, which place he was 'isiting on the day, when, as The Day avs, ''the bugles and banners of Camp 1ounsbury were too much for the queer
 i'd man."
 Ionic Lodge, F. A. M., meets next Ionday evening.
 Rev. F. D. Buckley will hold mis- ion service at Buff Gap, on Sunday, at 3 . m.
 Talk is crystalizing in favor of a move or citizens ticket this fall. The difficult les in the way of making a ticket are those 1 our senseless parish divisions and of the | w which prevents any one voting for lore than two selectmen or one assessor r member of board of relief. This last | bstacle did not exist when the experiment citizens ticket was so successfully tried |
 few years ago. No doubt move will e made this year for citizens ticket, as everal are agitating it. This is an ''off | ear," politically, and it is a good time to ct politics outof our town elections, where does not belong. In 8 little agitation | Io off fhiy SY,4 hort time ago, prohibitionist made the ood point that the two leading parties in he past have held their caucusses so late nd put their tickets into the field so i'm before the polls were opened | hat there was no time for voters to con- ider and pass judgment upon the names So much can be remedied. | Iet us heed the good suggestion and not | ut out our tickets as if we were ashamed ) have the voters inspect and criticise our 'ork. Then let every voter use the pencil nd ''sticker" freely. Vote for the best Ian, no matter what his politics. An hon. st man will always be conscientious and ischarge everya duty without regard to artisan bias, and none but men of that amp should hold office. So be particular. ,ok at all tickets, and if you find that of Vo candidates the better man is named on le ticket you do not usually vote, cut out le name and paste it on your ticket. 'on't overlook the list of constables and rand jurors these are important offices. either caucus has put men in nomina- on whose sympathies are openly and no- 'riously in favor of the law breaking ele- ent, rebuke the caucus that made them ndidates-most efectively-by a scratch. he man is not fit for any trust who will Ike an oath of office with the deliberate 1rpose to violate 1t and to defeat justice ther than promote it., Don't vote for an whose name printed in the list of your
 wn's officials will cause you to blush. erhaps some plan may be made to submit
 citizens ticket. If so it will be pretty ot to contain creditable list of names, he present town officers are mainly dem ,rats. Many of them are of the very best en who can be found for their positions, 'e hope that such will be retained. if they ill consent to serve. But whatever tick s are put into the field let them be made Lrly, and held up to public scrutiny as if
 e makers of the tickets were not ashamed
 their work.
 Among recent guests at the Springs ouse MT. and Mrs. Geo. A. Benton of ochester, N. r., have made considera- e stay. MT. Benton is a native of ToI- nd, and district attorney for the county
 Monroe. M. H. Stockwell and wife of oston have been spending two weeks at
 e house. N. H. Sanford of New Haven, ho has been spending most of the sum- CT here, was also visitor last year. He